Bruising to your body is often painful. A bruise is a collection of blood in a confined area. Blood that spills into the tissue has a high protein content that will attract further fluid to the region (secondary edema). If widespread or deep enough, this bruising can last weeks and months. Long standing bruised tissue can result in adhesions due to the increased connective tissue fibers becoming bound. Lymphatic Drainage Therapy can assess how well your body is or is not moving this fluid, and then help move it out.

Many clients have chronic or reoccurring injuries that develop inflammation and swelling, thus becoming ‘acute-like’ injuries. It’s important to address and properly treat these injuries so they can progress through a full healing cycle. Chronic injuries occur when a former injury was never fully resolved. The Lymphatic Drainage Therapy and Brain Therapy massage techniques are both useful tools in helping to normalize tissue conditions and help your body return to health.

Burns are debilitative and painful. Lymphatic Drainage Therapy can be an effective recovery technique that doesn’t touch the actual burn. It transports excess fluid away from the burn site, decreasing pressure on the pain receptors which reduces pain; it also helps facilitate tissue recovery.

Concussions and impacts to the head are dangerous, sometimes painful, and can be disorienting/limit normal activity. What treatment will be most effective or impactful depends on several factors, from personal response to the force of impact. Brain Therapy works by supporting the nervous system in the head and reducing internal tension. Both Lymphatic Drainage Therapy and Brain Therapy are excellent modalities to decrease bruising, increase lymph flow in the head and neck, restore tissue health and further reduce internal tension. They also help decrease brain fog, increase energy and vitality. Student-athletes respond very well to such treatments.

It’s important to treat bones after an injury and even after a fracture has healed; after all, if there was enough force to fracture a bone, tension will exist that was not there prior to the accident. When a fracture results in a casted extremity, it’s possible to decrease the swelling inside the cast, by working above it to move excess fluid and release the tension. Releasing tension better supports the joints, ligaments, muscles and body overall. If left untreated, tension can remain and contribute to pain down the road, that is not necessarily at the site of the original injury.

Conditions: Osgood-Schlatter disease, joint pain, joint sprains, post-fracture treatment, fractures of growth plates, knee replacements, hip replacements.

Whiplash occurs most often in car accidents but can occur in sports injuries and falls as well. Torn tissue is typically the reason there is so much pain afterward. The neck has multiple layers of connective tissue and fascia and damage leads to significant swelling that often gets trapped between these layers.

The brain often accrues tension in automobile accidents, as do the organs of the chest, and abdomen. Brain Therapy and Visceral Manipulation (releasing tight fascia around the organs) are key modalities to bring yourself to full recovery.

While Deep Tissue Massage will likely aggravate your neck initially; Lymphatic Drainage Therapy will decrease swelling and pain that may be causing headaches, increase neck movement and improve ease of movement.

Recovery from injury or surgery can be greatly enhanced with quality bodywork. Body tissue when hurt or injured, balls up and stays balled until it can open more easily. Often tissue needs help regaining or returning to its natural state of ease before it can move on and heal. Additionally, injuries effect more than just muscles; bones, ligaments, organs, the head and joints are all impacted when an injury occurs. Assessing not just what’s injured, but the entire body is essential for a sound and complete recovery. I work with clients by supporting their body as it moves from protective mode to healthy and treat injuries so the body can dedicate its natural energy elsewhere.

Injury recovery massage is ideal for recovery from falls, impact/trauma to the body, burns, road rash, bruising, thoracic outlet and carpal tunnel syndromes, fracture follow-up, car accidents, whiplash, sprains and strains. It can also aid recovery from mastectomies, hip and knee replacements, shoulder, back and neck surgeries, cosmetic and dental surgeries.

Sprains result from over-stretching and tearing ligaments; because they receive less blood than muscle tissue, sprains can take a long time to recover and often cause tremendous swelling. Therefore, Lymphatic Drainage Therapy is excellent for all types of sprains as it optimizes recovery by reducing swelling.